I well aware of physicalist claims, and that is a good description of it. One of Charles Pinter's central arguments in Mind and the Cosmic Order is th...
I do see your point and there is a sense in which the brain is a physical organ which can be physically damaged, But in context the implication was th...
You keep telling me what I'm not grasping, so I'll return the favour. The reason that the mind is not an object like those of physics or chemistry is ...
(Armstrong quote) Do you know why I would not agree? I’ll recap - because it treats ‘mind’ as being on par with ‘the objects of physics and chemistry’...
Very different subject matter but a well - regarded book. Out of print, I Iuckily found an online copy - it ought to download properly book-marked, wh...
What about the boxed quote above in support of materialist theory of mind. Do you think it is basically correct? Or if not what’s wrong with it? And, ...
For what it's worth, I don't think the language used in the OP is idiosyncatic or the words have been misused in any way. As noted above, I dropped th...
Actually I'll own up, I didn't watch that whole video, but I briefly reviewed it and also his other materials and I'm sure it's bona fide. (Not that I...
The claim that metaphysics is empty (‘otiose’ was Ayer’s term) is itself a metaphysical claim. That’s basically what sunk the positivists. I think som...
But being disposed to do or say something merely describes what someone ls likely to do. It doesn't describe what they ought to do. And it also reduce...
Not according to AI https://claude.ai/share/d20fdc96-dfad-44a1-9ef5-cbef895a5819 For clarity’s sake do agree with this depiction of materialism by D M...
An instantiation is an instance of something; a rule book is an instantiation of the rules which it describes. A chess game is an instantiation of the...
A good question — but notice something subtle. The objection is framed from an imagined “view from nowhere,” as if we could somehow step outside all p...
What you’re overlooking is the distinction between causal explanation and normative explanation. Physicalism gives you causal accounts of how neurons ...
It seems Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine is finally about to materialize. He is forcing them to adopt a ‘peace plan’ that basically capitulates to Russian...
If you read the OP you will see it says no such thing. ‘Let me address an obvious objection. ‘Surely “the world” is what is there all along, what is t...
The original post provides ample justification for basic argument, as does a related On Purpose. Although I will grant that 'create' carries connotati...
Well, I could say pure mathematics. That’s the obvious case where what is grasped is not “realised” by a physical system in the way you mean. Neverthe...
According to 'Clarendon'. Thanks, but I choose my sources carefully. What I mean is - 'what is a "thing?" What does "exist" mean? Does "exist" and "re...
No. If I said the meaning of metaphysics was restricted to the meaning in Aristotle's texts, and that it had no other meaning, then it would be. I'm j...
It's not 'the etymological fallacy'. Certainly the word 'metaphysics' has acquired many meanings over time but, especially in this case, it's importan...
When I did a unit in cog sci we were told of an experiment where kittens were brought up in an environment where all the obstacles were vertical. They...
Agree. I believe the Joe Sachs edition is highly regarded. (I had a look - the Joe Sachs edition is not the Penguin Classics edition, which is less ex...
The key thing to understand is that it starts with Aristotle. One of the later editors of Aristotle's texts applied the term 'metaphysics' meaning 'af...
https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg It could also be noted that the derivation of 'world' is fr...
They create their world - meaning, they enact or bring forth a meaningful environment through their embodied activity. That is a fundamental point of ...
The point is, the OP wasn't generated by AI, on account of it having been published before AI went live (Nov 19th 2022) - but I felt that the AI revie...
The original essay and OP were written prior to the advent of large language models - publication date was 4th November 2022, 15 days prior to the lau...
Please notice what you are glossing over or assuming in saying this. Philosophers have spent millenia puzzling about the relationships between mind, w...
It is based on your not recognising a fundamental distinction going back to David Hume. There is a fundamental philosophical distinction between physi...
Of course I accept science, you'd have to be a fool not to. What I don't accept is the attempt to subject philosophical questions to scientific criter...
I agree that in practice you can’t do neuroscience without maths, models of inference, and all the conceptual tools scientists rely upon. But that’s a...
The point is that norms of reasoning and causal processes belong to different explanatory orders. Physical processes unfold according to causes; reaso...
Not magical—just not the same kind of thing. My point is that the capacity to grasp reasons, recognise valid versus invalid inferences, and understand...
There's a through-line, so to speak. I've acquired a textbook on Husserl (David Bell) but haven't made a lot of headway with it. But Husserl's noesis ...
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